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title: "Depth Anything 3 Metric Prior"
description: "Depth Anything 3 Metric Prior from ByteDance (Seed): monocular-depth-estimation and metric-depth-estimation; Verified."
modelId: "depth-anything-v3-prior"
pageSource: authored
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Depth Anything 3 Metric Prior is the metric-depth head of ByteDance Seed's Depth Anything 3, integrated as an independent geometry prior with verified runner status. The recorded checkpoint is depth-anything/DA3METRIC-LARGE, and it is the depth prior the Prior-Depth-Anything refiner was verified against in this repository.
The recorded paper is [arXiv 2511.10647](https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.10647).
Project page: [depth-anything-3.github.io](https://depth-anything-3.github.io/). Code: [ByteDance-Seed/Depth-Anything-3](https://github.com/ByteDance-Seed/Depth-Anything-3).
Same paper as the export card: [arXiv 2511.10647](https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.10647). Project: [depth-anything-3.github.io](https://depth-anything-3.github.io/). Runner is **verified** on the shared prior contract. Runtime configs live under `worldfoundry/data/models/runtime/configs/depth_anything_v3`, **separate from ViPE**.
This is **not** the SOH export [depth-anything-v3](/docs/guides/supported-models/depth-anything-v3).
## What it is for
Pick `depth-anything-v3-prior` for feed-forward geometry: views in, reconstruction / trajectory / point cloud out. Use it when you need the catalog 3D route rather than a depth-only prior.
DA3 scales the Depth Anything recipe and adds metric and geometry heads. This prior entry wires the metric-large checkpoint; runtime configs live under runtime/configs/depth_anything_v3, separate from VIPE configs. It is published by ByteDance (Seed).
Catalog tasks include monocular-depth-estimation, metric-depth-estimation, and geometry-prior. Catalog aliases include `dav3-prior` and `da3metric-large-prior`. Documented modalities: image in, depth out.
## Runtime contract
Optional `input_path`, `focal_length`, `execute`, and `max_points`; artifacts `depth-anything-v3-prior.npz`.
CLI task profiles: `default`. WorldFoundry binds `DepthAnythingV3PriorPipeline`.
Family status: **Verified**.
It is integrated as an independent geometry prior under worldfoundry/base_models and exposed through the shared geometry-prior pipeline/operator contract. Higher-level pipelines (e.g. ViPE) import it from this canonical owner instead of keeping private copies. Use the sibling depth-anything-v3 entry for the official SOH export route.
Integrated as an independent depth prior at worldfoundry/base_models/three_dimensions/depth/depth_anything/depth_anything_v3.
## Running in WorldFoundry
The catalog launch is `worldfoundry-eval run depth-anything-v3-prior --pipeline.task-profile default`. The command builder above switches `--pipeline.task-profile` among recorded tasks and still emits `worldfoundry-eval run`.
It runs in the unified environment `worldfoundry-unified-cu128` (Python 3.11, CUDA 12.8).
Recorded weight repositories include `depth-anything/DA3METRIC-LARGE`. Prepare the environment and check local assets with `bash scripts/inference/prepare_model_infer.sh depth-anything-v3-prior`. Add `--download` to fetch missing public checkpoints.
Status: **Verified**.